Tendrils

Description

for string quartetTendrils has been described as a 'masterly display of Skempton's utterly natural art.' It is built out of continuous undulating lines that sustain their effect throughout, the impulse being lyrical and experimental.

Programme Notes:

For string quartet.Tendrils was composed for the Smith Quartet. It was commissioned jointly by the BBC and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.Tendrils is built out of continuous undulating lines that sustain their effect throughout, the impulse being lyrical and experimental.Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press

Tendrils

Composer Information

Howard Skempton (b.1947)

Howard Skempton has worked as a composer, accordionist, and music publisher. Renowned for the distinctive clarity of his musical language, in recent years he has concentrated increasingly on writing choral and vocal music. His choral commissions include works for the BBC Singers and the Belfast Philharmonic Society.